If an element is out of order, remove it from the array.
An example in everyone’s (least) favorite language:
const americanSort = (list, compare) => list.reduce((acc, cur) => { const lastElement = acc.length > 0 ? acc[acc.length - 1] : null; return lastElement ? compare(lastElement, cur) < 1 ? [...acc, cur] : acc : [cur]; }, []);
console.log(americanSort([5, 2, 6, 5, 20, 10, 40], (a, b) => a - b)) outputs Array(4) [ 5, 6, 20, 40 ]
It makes me feel cool and I’m already used to doing it, so doing it the function way becomes slower from being so used to doing it the other way.